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Subject: Re: Human Style or Lazy?

Author: Bahram Namjou

Date: 17:05:18 08/30/05

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This is analysis by hiarcs 9 (p4, 3.2 ghz, 128 hash).
It did RxC6 in about 90 sec....bn


Analysis by Hiarcs 9:

+-  (4.84) 1.Rxc6+ bxc6 2.Kxe4 Ke7   00:00:00
+-  (5.13) 1.b4 Kd7 2.Rxc6 Kxc6   00:00:00
+-  (4.76) 1.Rxc6+ Kxc6 2.Kxe4 Kd6 3.a4 Ke7 4.a5   00:00:00
+-  (5.00) 1.b4 Ke7 2.Rxc6 bxc6 3.Kxe4 Kf6   00:00:00
+-  (5.34) 1.f6 Ke6 2.Rxg5 Kxf6 3.Rc5 Bd7 4.g5+ Kg6 5.Kxe4   00:00:00
+-  (5.36) 1.Kd4 Ke7 2.Re5+ Kf7 3.Re6   00:00:01
+-  (5.48) 1.Ra5 Ke7 2.Re5+ Kf7 3.Re6 a5 4.b4 a4 5.Rg6 Bd5 6.h3 b5   00:00:02
+-  (5.72) 1.Kd4 Ke7 2.Rxc6 bxc6 3.Kxe4 Kd6 4.b3 Kd7 5.b4 Kd6   00:00:08
+-  (6.08) 1.Ra5 Be8 2.Kxe4 Bb5 3.Kd4 b6 4.Rxb5 axb5 5.b4   00:00:30
+-  (7.04) 1.Kd4 Ke7 2.Rxc6 bxc6 3.Kxe4 Kd6 4.b4 Ke7 5.Ke5 Kf7 6.f6 c5 7.bxc5
00:00:57
+-  (7.59) 1.Rxc6+ Kxc6 2.Kxe4 Kd6 3.b4 b6 4.a4 Ke7 5.Kd5 Kd7 6.Ke5 Ke8 7.Kf6 b5
8.axb5   00:01:36

(, Home 30.08.2005)





On August 30, 2005 at 16:40:55, Ray Rogers wrote:

>Human Style or Lazy?
>
>This position occurred during a game in Margate in 2000.
>
>[D] 8/1p6/p1bk4/2R2Pp1/4p1P1/P3K3/1P5P/8 w - - 0 46
>
>White, a stronger player than I, went with Kd4 and of course black resigned but
>only on move 57. I was watching and thought Rxc6 might produce instant
>resignation! The next day I put this to my electronic friends, RISC 1mb and
>Rebel 7 agreed in a few seconds whilst HIARCS 7.32, R30 (1995) and others liked
>Kd4.
>
>Clearly RxB snuffs out any chance of black sticking a "cheapo" on him.
>
>Was I thinking like a human or just being lazy?
>
>I'm not a programmer but would be interested in the programmers' point of view.
>
>What would you WANT your program to play here?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Ray.
>
>ps. If you think you've seen this before Eric Hallsworth published my letter in
>Selective Search No. 89.



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